Roar

We have eagerly been awaiting Halloween. We've had Erin's costume for a few weeks, but she's been refusing to wear it at since we got it. That it, until yesterday. After her bath, I convinced her to try it on. I figure that getting her to wear the body wouldn't be a huge fight since it's just like pajamas with a tail. The head is a little more involved. In any case, she agreed to wear the head. Imagine a scrawny, pale little girl with a huge lion head on... it was awesome. She didn't want to take it off and we only got it off with promises that we would wear it again in the morning. This morning, I walk into her room and the first words out of her mouth are "more roar." So funny.

We've had a busy week trying to get some house projects checked off the list and get ready for our trip next week. Erin has had fun sweeping, vacuuming, washing and folding laundry. She even helps set the table and loves to take the napkins and the cups (plastic) to the table. How helpful.


Today we headed out into the pouring rain to tour some childcare options. We saw two centers that are pretty close to our house. One is Spanish immersion, has a great curriculum, feeds the kids fresh, organic meals prepared on site daily, uses cloth diapers and is just all around awesome. The other is fine. It is a quarter mile from our house, and is fine. Matt compared the first to paradise and the other to a prison camp. It's really not like that and Matt was just being a little dramatic. The problem is that the one we like is only open from 7:30-5:15. While this might work in the real world where people have grownup jobs and work normal hours, we're having trouble trying to figure out how we could make that work. We're supposed to see a few more next week and try to figure this whole thing out. Jan and Dean will still take care of Erin until she's close to 2, so we've got some time, but it would be really nice to have it settled.